Dish in Portugal (1 Viewer)

[Kjack]

Hi I've just bought a tv with built in satellite reciver can someone tell the best dish to use in Portugal and any advice on picking up British TV in Portugal as I spent the winter down there and any advice would be greatfull plus where to buy the extras I need. Thanks kjack

 

[obanvanman]

I am sorry, but having read a few posts about this before, the experts are going to tell you to get a f*****g big one.

 

[irnbru]

Yep you will need a massive dish. You might be better to try sourcing a good data package and watching tv on TVcatchup.com

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[ukbill]

It does need to be big,best way now is apps, for tv

 

[emjaiuk]

But be prepared for dire warnings from some member(s) of excommunication and confiscation of all your worldly goods if you make use of SatBack signals from Intelsat 907


Malcolm

 

[Kjack]

When I was there last year I met several people who were watching British TV there dishes were not that big. There was a guy there said he would set the whole system up and running for me at the cost of 300 euro. That seems a lot when my TV has sat built in especially for 3 mths. I think there must be away a bit cheaper?

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[2657]

When I was there last year I met several people who were watching British TV there dishes were not that big. There was a guy there said he would set the whole system up and running for me at the cost of 300 euro. That seems a lot when my TV has sat built in especially for 3 mths. I think there must be away a bit cheaper?

Those that are getting mainstream UK TV in Portugal are using a cracked decoder box to get a signal from the Intelsat 907 satellite, the legality of this is not for me to comment on.

For all practical purposes it is impossible to access UK TV on a reasonable sized dish from the normal satellite.

For the last two winters we have used unlimited data sims from NOS, €15 for 15 days renewable online, in a mifi and used Pure VPN to access BBC iplayer etc on the laptop though it is possible to use a TV via HDMI cable but I have never managed to do this.

 

[100brian]

When I was there last year I met several people who were watching British TV there dishes were not that big. There was a guy there said he would set the whole system up and running for me at the cost of 300 euro. That seems a lot when my TV has sat built in especially for 3 mths. I think there must be away a bit cheaper?

Not when your tv with the built in satellite receiver will not tune into Intelsat 907.

 

[scotjimland]

Intelsat 907 at 27.5 West BBC SATBAC

Information from the @Satandpcguy

https://www.satandpcguy.com/intelsat-bbc-satback/

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[emjaiuk]

Not when your tv with the built in satellite receiver will not tune into Intelsat 907.

It's not just a question of tuning in to Intelsat 907, which your sat dish must be able to do. The Satback UK signals are encoded, and it would require a sat receiver which allows you to enter the decode sequence to receive them. The link I included above suggests that this would be possible for slightly over £100, which I would have thought is a reasonable one off payment if TV in southern Europe is important to you.


Malcolm

 

[Speve]

We have always got our TV using a sky box and an Oyster 85 cm dish with Autoskew you may not get BBC or ITV but most of the other channels

 

[2657]

We have always got our TV using a sky box and an Oyster 85 cm dish with Autoskew you may not get BBC or ITV but most of the other channels

Other channels?.......not got BBC.....not got UK TV

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[Speve]

Other channels?.......not got BBC.....not got UK TV

Yes we do get BBC ITV but not always as may not bein the footprint for those channels.
With a sky box most are UK channels

 

[2657]

Yes we do get BBC ITV but not always as may not bein the footprint for those channels.
With a sky box most are UK channels

As far as I am concerned BBC is UK TV, not interested in whats on SKY, occasionally something decent on ITV or Channel 4, no interest whatsoever in films etc

 

[Speve]

As far as I am concerned BBC is UK TV, not interested in whats on SKY, occasionally something decent on ITV or Channel 4, no interest whatsoever in films etc

The question by the OP was what dish I couldn’t care less what you want to watch

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